They’re already here. – Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, 1957.

Hurling fans are concerned about the state of the re-laid Croke Park pitch. They're not angry yet, but they will be, if a slip in front of goal at a vital time decides the outcome of next Sunday's big game between Waterford and Kilkenny.

Hurling fans are concerned about the state of the re-laid Croke Park pitch.

SETANTA Ó hAilpín’s training-ground fight yesterday with Carlton team-mate Cameron Cloke has led to the former Young Hurler of the Year being suspended indefinitely by his club — but the punishment may not end there.

Rescue teams searching for a man lost overboard in Lough Neagh have recovered a body, police said today.

Tyrone minor footballer Kyle Coney has signed a two-year rookie contract with Australian Rules club Sydney Swans, where he will link up with fellow Irishmen Tadhg Kennelly and Brendan Murphy.

Stormont ministers will make the issue of health screening for up-and-coming athletes a top priority following the deaths of four young people on both sides of the border, the Ian Paisley insisted today.

THERE are calls for mandatory heart screening of all schoolchildren after four young boys died playing sports in one week.

GAA leaders have called for the introduction of health screening for children at primary school level, in a bid to curb sudden deaths from heart conditions.

An urgent all-island approach to stop foot-and-mouth disease from entering Ireland today swung into action.

The North's power-sharing executive will today hold a special Cabinet meeting to consider their response to the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey, England.

Police in the North have arrested a person in connection with a Co Tyrone crash in which a man died.

2005 Footballer of the Year Stephen O'Neill could miss Tyrone's Ulster SFC opener against Fermanagh next month after injuring his hamstring in training.

A booby-trapped bomb planted at an army base in Northern Ireland would have killed anyone who touched it, police said today.

THE Tyrone victory tour moved on to Owen Mulligan’s home town last night as a crazed county revelled in a wonderful party.

After enduring a tortured summer of suspension, Tyrone’s Gavin Devlin now stands on the brink of All-Ireland glory. Mark Gallagher reports.

Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers’ officials were today accused of putting Northern Ireland’s entire farming industry at risk because of a lack of information about any contingency plans to deal with future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease.

Northern Ireland agriculture minister Brid Rodgers was today facing calls for her resignation after it emerged that farmers making fraudulent compensation claims during the foot-and-mouth crisis will escape prosecution.

16 farmers in Northern Ireland, who are claiming EU sheep premiums, were found to possess no sheep at all after the foot-and-mouth cull earlier this year.

Republicans were today accused of causing the foot-and-mouth crisis in Northern Ireland by smuggling livestock across the border.

Four former police officers are to help investigate the illegal movement of livestock in Northern Ireland before and during the foot-and-mouth crisis.

A fourth case of Foot-and-Mouth Disease has been discovered in the North.

Farmers in the North are waiting anxiously for results of the tests carried out on the two latest suspected cases of foot-and-mouth.

The North's Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers is to decide today whether to ease movement restriction on animals by allowing their transport to slaughterhouses.

At least three livestock dealers in Northern Ireland are at the centre of investigations into the movement of sheep before foot-and-mouth occurred in the province, according to reports tonight.

Preliminary tests on a suspected case of foot-and-mouth at Ardboe in Co Tyrone have proved negative.

The burning of animals killed in the latest foot-and-mouth outbreaks in Co Tyrone and Co Antrim has begun.

The illegal movement of animals is suspected of being the root cause of the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in the North.

A new fortress regime has been put in place in Northern Ireland after a third outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed.

Agriculture authorities in the Republic urged extra vigilance against foot-and-mouth today after a confirmation of a second outbreak of the disease across the border in the north.

One of the UK’s top motor cycle road racing events was tonight called off because of the foot-and-mouth restrictions.

Preliminary results on the suspect foot-and-mouth case in Ardboe, Co Tyrone, are negative.